edited by: Chris Liebenthal,
Wisconsin Editor
This past Thursday's Economic Development Commission meeting - a fairly frustrating experience; more on that later - featured a presentation by Tom Rave, executive Director of Gateway Milwaukee, on the AEROTROPOLIS concept. As the topic wasn't included on our agenda (i.e. we could do no advance [...]
The Shepherd-Express has given Milwaukee County Supervisor Lynne DeBruin the title “Jerk of the Week” for her votes siding with County Executive Scott Walker on the recently passed budget.
I can understand why they did it and DeBruin has certainly been a disappointment on many issues but while I don’t agree [...]
Here’s the link to a map of Stimulus Jobs Inflated by State.
In nationwide totals, this private tracking effort has uncovered reports amounting to 90,489 bogus stimulus jobs — and still counting.
What’s Wisconsin show?
1. C3T Construction Co. in Milwaukee claimed to have created 24 jobs on projects that have not [...]
My column for the West Bend Daily News is online. It’s called, “Political zoo.” Let’s skip right to the point.
The moral of the story is that actions have consequences. Wisconsin’s voters elected Jim Doyle. Milwaukee’s voters elected Tom Barrett. Doyle took transportation funds and squandered [...]
From the latest edition of the Sheperd Express: (towards the bottom)
Jerk of the Week County Supervisor Lynne DeBruin“Jerk” is too strong of a word to describe Supervisor Lynne DeBruin for her votes on the Milwaukee County Board, but we are extremely disappointed with her for caving in to pressure from [...]
Remember when Milwaukee County Executive Scott Walker criticized Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett for imposing two furlough days on Milwaukee Police officers as part of Barrett’s most recent City of Milwaukee budget? I do, and that’s why I found it so amusing that Walker himself actually imposed eight unpaid furlough [...]
The City of Milwaukee’s Department of City Development is seeking bids to provide snow removal services at the Century City Site (formerly Tower Automotive) for the 2009-2010 season.
Bid information can be found on their websites:
http://www.mkedcd.org/30thstreet
http://www.mkedcd.org/rfp [...] Undoubtedly if you’ve walked around the East Side of Milwaukee for an extended period of time you’ve encountered a “Part Time Cash” sticker on the window of a car, or laying next to the curb. And therein lies the problem.
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Open Memo to Milwaukee County Executive / Candidate for Governor Scott Walker:
You recently vetoed a measure that would have granted same-sex domestic partner benefits to county employees,' [...]
What is regionalism? Judging by the way it’s often used in Milwaukee, regionalism would appear to be the notion that new projects should be built further and further away from the City of Milwaukee to serve Waukesha County residents. Case in point? The planned engineering school expansion by UW-Milwaukee to [...]
Congratulations to Sachin Chheda, who was elected as chair of the Democratic Party of Milwaukee County.
Thanks also to Tyrone Daniels for his candidacy, and to Martha Love for her many years of service. [...] 
